Bruce Tabashnik, study leader and department head of entomology in the University of Arizona's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has used pest-resistant cotton and the release of sterile pink ...

Interbreeding Bt cotton plants with non-Bt plants yields a seed mix that has resulted in 96 percent pest suppression and 69 percent fewer insecticide sprays in the Yangtze River Valley in China.

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In Bt cotton, these genes have been implanted so that the plant itself produces the relevant insecticides without the bacteria. By relocating these defences to the plant’s own genome, scientists ...

The Donald Trump administration is exerting pressure on India to open up its market to American soyabean and maize, which are ...

While organic farmers have sprayed Bt on crops for decades, many cotton growers worldwide are now using the genetically-modified, insect-resistant Bt cotton variety of the plant. Three-quarters of ...

The crop, Bt cotton, ... clusters of Arizona cotton fields with Bt plants on more than 60 percent of the acreage have managed to suppress the local populations of the dreaded pink bollworm, ...

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If Bt cotton does what its supporters say, it will be an economic boon to farmers struggling to survive. If it does what its critics say, it could destroy them.

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